A Brief Account of Evolving Islam

The very first question that arises for an ex Muslim after
leaving Islam is that if Mohammed was such a pedophilic cult
leader then how Islam becomes 2nd biggest religion of the world.
The answer is not so simple because it needs to study the whole
history of Islam. But the answer always given is simply
“evolution”. That is a word which Charles Darwin used in his
Origin of Species, but actually the word evolution worth more than
simple evolution of living organisms. It prevails over every
aspect of life even religion is included in it. Now coming to the
point, Islam is also product of evolution as all living things
are.

You will be victimized if you say that Mohammed was not sinless
in present day society but in the early phase of Islam Mohammed was
consider only man prophet who can err. Due to this reason many early
writer like Tabri etc. wrote incidents of Satanic verses and many
others there is a whole article about this
here.

The evolution starts when Mohammed migrated to medina .where he
came across the Jews and Christians. So fasting, Eid, circumcision
and other rituals were added to Islam. Mohammed did this first to
attract Jews to his new invented religion but when they refused, the
hate chapter of Quran came into action and the verses of hatred were
revealed against the Jews. The present-day hatred in the heart of
Muslims for Jews is due to those verses. Especially the famous
verses which say Jews are apes and pigs.

After the death of Mohammed, the father of his child-bride Abu
baker became Caliph. Evolution worked on Islam in this era and many
new rituals e.g. two times azan in juma prayer and jihad
against the Muslims who refused to give zakat tax etc. were
invented. Similarly, in the reign of Omer evolution worked and
starting of tarawi prayer ,reformation of Islamic laws ,
forbidding of Muta (temporary marriage) etc were the changes. In
this era Islamic “holy” looting was at the peak.

After the invasion of Persia, Islam came across the theories of
early Persian people who were impressed by the Greeks. Which cause
the emergence of mutazalites and kharjites who prefer
human reasoning to the revelation. To stop these sects the
fundamentalists came into action and Imam Ghazali (d. 1111) gave
fatwa that those who prefer brain to revelation are infidels. This
caused strictness in Islam; the way to human reasoning was blocked.
In this face of evolution Islam was upgraded from a cult to a status
of religion. At that time, ahadith books were written. And many
changes were made in it due to which a lot of sects and deviant
ideologies appeared and that time Mohammed was made an ideal and
errorless personality.

Similarly, when Islam entered India, by the sword of Mohammed bin
Qasim. Due to enforcement of jazia and caste system of India
a lot of people became Muslim. Here Islamic evolution had a dramatic
change. When Islam came across the tolerated Vedic religion it was
so changed and give birth to Islamic sufiism. Which is Islamic form
of Hindu philosophies. The theories of karma , wahda tul wajud
and many other were very popular in the India.

In the reign of Mughal emperor Akbar (d. 1605), an amalgam of
Hinduism and Islam was preached which he declared as “deen e ilahi”
or "religion of god". In that age evolution was at its peak. And
Islam was totally reformed. Though all the attempts were nullified
by Akbar’s successors but its remnants are still present in Islamic
society of India.

Even my ancestor became Muslim due to these philosophies which
calls for respect for every one. But evolution never stops. Soon,
the real face of Islam started reaching India. This process started
when Shah Wali Allah (d. 1762) translated Quran into Persian
language which causes people to read the satanic verses of hate and
terrorism. Soon after that the militantly puritanical Islamic
movement of wahabism, preached by Saudi scholar Abdul Wahab,
started. This was the real face of Islam. When it reached India, it
caused disturbance in peace-loving society. Severe response was
given against this ideologies from both Muslims and Hindus. Even
now, people in Pakistan hate the wahabis even more than satan. But
evolution was still working in this scenario.

Face of Islam was totally changed in India and Derailvi and
Deobandi sect was emerged. These are amalgam of Islam and Hindu
ideologies of saints and gurus. There is same Hinduic system of guru
etc.

But after the creation of Pakistan, when these sects came across
the real hardcore Islamic ideologies, they surrendered to the
terrorist face of Islam. The preaching of violent Islam by these
sects reached at its peak during the Afghan war against Russia.

In Europe, when Islam came across Christianity, it can’t
withstand and sect of submitters originated to hide the violent
history of Islam.

But still there are reformers in Islamic land. And in my family I
am pretending to be a reformer type Muslim. Who wants change in
traditional Islam. Though Dr. Ali Sina thought that Islam can be
vanished by striking its core, Mohammed and the Quran, it seems
difficult in Islamic lands like Pakistan. I, therefore, support
reformation and reformers. I will quote some reformations which I
have noted.

There are a lot of hadiths that says 'picture' is haram in Islam.
The angels of blessing never enter where there is a picture and so
on. Early scholars refused to capture a picture but now they
reformed those hadiths and legalized the pictures. Similarly, when
Shah Wali Allah translated Quran he was declared as infidel by
majority of ulemas of his age but now translating Quran is
not sin. Giving blood to any one was haram first now, it is
halal.

Similarly, many reformations have done in Islamic veil and even
listening music is declared as halal by contemporary Islamic
scholars, Javed Ahmad Ghamdi and Dr Tahirul Qadri.